...A little boy almost died on an AA flight! The attendants passed out peanuts on the flight and the boy smelled them. He almost died. According to his mom, if he even SMELLS peanuts or peanut butter, he'll develop an allergic reaction.

Are you suggesting that's the airline's fault?

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i couldn't believe it. the flight was delayed, the security kept waving things at me and looking in my bags and shoes, i had a cramped seat, there were no overhead bins left, the flight was bumpy, the food was lousy and full of allergy inducing ingredients, the flight attendants were rude, AND they kept hitting into my shoulder ever time they walked by.

but the worst part was that i didn't get any peanuts.

NO PEANUTS!!!!

i am entitled to my peanuts.

so on my next vacation, we'll be driving.

delayed in traffic, my wife waving the directions in my face and complaining about her shoes, in a cramped car seat, with far too much luggage packed all around, on bumpy roads, sucking in car fumes and roadside weed pollens, with rude toll takers and gas station attendants, with my son kicking the back of my seat every once in a while.

but al least i'll bring peanuts.

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The next time someone asks what you did this past weekend, squint really hard and say, "Why, what did you hear?"

A little boy almost died on an AA flight! The attendants passed out peanuts on the flight and the boy smelled them. He almost died. According to his mom, if he even SMELLS peanuts or peanut butter, he'll develop an allergic reaction.

"For the entire flight . . . plaintiff remained fearful, tense and anxious as she watched over her son's every breath and body twitch, concerned that at any moment her son could have an anaphylactic reaction while imprisoned 35,000 feet into the air," read the lawsuit filed Monday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

The lawsuit claims Ryahn's civil rights were violated and that the airline inflicted severe emotional distress on his mother. It cites the Air Carrier Access Act which protects disabled passengers.

He was fine. She was freaked out and now feels the airlines owe her millions of dollars.

Why is it tough to say? It seems completely cut and dry to me. The airline has a posted policy that says there may be peanut products on the plane? How could anyone then claim it is the airlines fault???

I only know that most airlines or at least some of them had switched over to pretzels to avoid people getting sick and them or their families filing any lawasuits.

I also never knew that a person can get sick from just smelling peanuts. The boy didn't literally open a bag of peanuts and put his nose in the bag. His mom would not have let him do that. I think he just happened to catch wind of the smell as they were being eaten by the other passengers.